Jared Widdifield

Jared Widdifield (28 May 1738-2 August 1805) was an American revolutionary who took part in the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Jared Widdifield was born on 28 May 1738 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, outside of the city of Boston. Widdifield served in the British Army in the Seven Years' War against France in the 1750s, and Widdifield left the army to become a printer. In 1775, however, he returned to the military, but this time he was against Great Britain. Widdifield became an alarm rider, warning the people around Boston that the British were marching on Concord. Widdifield served as a captain during the American Revolutionary War, and after the war's end in the north in 1778, Widdifield returned to his home and resumed printing. He died in 1805 at the age of 67.